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Tag: custom machines

Machine Assembly and Fabrication, Machine Design, The Book

Building The Machine: A Bedtime Story

Frank Sep 7, 2015 Tagged with custom machines, Industrial Automation Hands On, machine building

The following story is from my book Industrial Automation: Hands On (McGraw-Hill, 2013). I wrote it …

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Applications, Machine Assembly and Fabrication, Machine Builders and Integrators, Me

The Big Toys

Frank May 17, 2015 Tagged with ABD, custom machines, design, machine building, Wright Industries

Hello from Atlanta, Georgia where I am about to teach a 4 day class on Siemens’ …

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Integration, Machine Assembly and Fabrication, troubleshooting

Machine Start-Ups

Frank Apr 27, 2014 Tagged with custom machines, Debug, machine building, startup

As I prepare for a trip to Japan and China, I am reminded of the many …

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Machine Builders and Integrators

More On Custom Machine Building

Frank Feb 2, 2014 Tagged with custom machines, machine building, systems integration, templates, tools

Over the past several years I’ve had the privilege of working with quite a few machine …

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Machine Builders and Integrators

ATS Automation

Frank Sep 8, 2013 Tagged with ATS, ATS Automation, custom machines, machine building, systems integration, templates

When I was at Wright Industries, one of the companies that we often competed against for …

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Machine Builders and Integrators

Machine Builders and Integrators

Frank Feb 24, 2013 Tagged with custom machines, machine building, systems integration

This morning I decided to update the list of machine builders and integrators under the resources …

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Machine Builders and Integrators

Custom Machine Builders

Frank Sep 9, 2012 Tagged with custom machines, machine building

Sometimes its hard to come up with topics that I haven’t already covered in this blog. …

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Consulting, Machine Builders and Integrators, Website

Wright Industries and Doerfer

Frank Dec 18, 2011 Tagged with Automation Consulting, custom machines, vendors, Wright Industries

Since this week was my last week at my former employer, Wright Industries I thought I’d …

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